This page lists leaflets produced or used by our department. Each leaflet is reviewed at least every three years to make sure it is kept up to date.
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- This leaflet explains how to take care of your dialysis line.
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- Your doctor has recommended that you have a nephrectomy – an operation to remove your kidney. This leaflet aims to answer your questions and explains the benefits, risks and alternatives of the operation. It also tells you what you can expect when you come to hospital and when you go home to recover.
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- This leaflet aims to answer your questions about having the hepatitis B vaccination if you are a kidney patient.
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- A patient information leaflet on HLA incompatible kidney transplantation.
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- This leaflet explains more about having holiday dialysis (sometime referred to as dialysis away from base) at a dialysis centre managed by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
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- This leaflet explains more about self-care and home dialysis treatments for kidney patients.
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- The aim of this leaflet is to explain what peer support is and how it could help you, your family or carers.
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- This leaflet explains more about robot assisted kidney transplantation. It will tell you why you are being offered it, the benefits, risks and alternative treatments. It will give you an overview of the process from being referred to our clinic to follow-up after your kidney transplant.
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- This leaflet offers information about the social workers in the kidney team and how they can help kidney patients and their families
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- Information leaflet for parents and carers, about what support is available to them when a child is moving from children's to adult kidney services, or when a young adult is receiving care in adult kidney services.